i have made an animation in another class that i have uploaded to my vimeo account too.
in making this one, i took heaps of photos of a chalk drawing gradually being drawn on a wall. then put the photos into a piece of software called i stop. i made the soundtrack on garage band and made loops of me mumbling and added effects.
i put the film and sound together in final cut pro with a quick fade in and this is the result.....
http://vimeo.com/28495246

i uploaded my film onto vimeo

http://vimeo.com/28291608

i was also toying with the idea of splicing in some images of fish into the film and and make it a bit more psychadelic.
there was this footage of a fishtank

http://www.archive.org/details/My_Goldfish

http://www.archive.org/details/My_Goldfish_1

but i decided to keep it as footage of fireworks for my project.

using final cut pro, i used layered the footage of fireworks on top of each other, using cross fades to go between them, fading from cut up piece of footage to the other, i also used key frame effects to play one clip over the other with the black of the night set as transparent.
i tried to line up some of the explosions to go off at different points along the timeline to meet up with beats of the soundtrack.

for the visuals of this project, i used these creative commons licenced pieces on archive.org

http://www.archive.org/details/Fireworks_2

http://www.archive.org/details/Tels7ar-Fireworks547

http://www.archive.org/details/iriptanFireworksBonfireNightwmv

and this one from youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K7ScnKeNxU

so...
im gonna make this blog a bit retrospectively to finish off the stuff with the film and work done with final cut pro.
what i had decided to do was collect a few films of fireworks being let off and merge them together.
i managed to find a few good and appropriate pieces of footage that were creative commons licenced.
i also managed to find some background music using the site free music archive, which has heaps of creative commons music up for grabs. i found an electro artist called Lee Rosevere.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/
i thought a lot of this artists songs would be good and appropriate for background music to the fireworks. i found a cool piece called 'dreaming of citiesit's. it is a soft, ambient piece with a few minimalist beats put through it.